Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-28
POLITICAL. TELESCOPES.
They Are at Present All Focused On
bulgaria.


PARIS, August 27.-lNew York Herald
IS again hot and sultry with intermittent
showers. Huge, vaporOus clouds hang like
Nightmares over Paris. Through them the
sun looks like huge red cartwheel. Straw
hats, fans and perspiration reign supreme.
The bouevards are deserted by Parlsians,
but thronged with tourists from every imag-
Unable corner of the globe Political tele-
scopes are all focused on Bulgaria, and
Prince Ferdinand, of CoburE, must at last
realize that he has got into hornets nest,
out of which he will be lucky to escape with
out meeting fate less tragic than that
which befell Kaiser Macmillan in Mexico.
The whole Russian nation, from the car
down to the lowest candle-eating Cossack, is
firmly resolved to stand no nonsense In Bull
gara. The body of Katkoff, like that Of
John Brown, Is moulderlng in the grave.
Bulgaria was created by the gallant
deeds of the Russian army. In the eyes of
Russian the patriotic aspirations of the whole
Bulgarian nation do not weigh feather in
the scales against the sacred memory of the
men who fell in any one of SkObeloffs valley
charges. There are only 2,OO0,O 900 Bulgarians,
men, women and children, all told, and they
have cost Russian taxpayers nearly $500
head, so that the Russians naturally feel
that they practically own Bulgaria and pro.
pose to do what they please with it. Prince
Ferdinand has been told in the clearest pos
sible language by the Tsar that he has no
business whatever in Bulgaria. Forty thou
sand Russian troops are at Odessa ready to
land. Varna makes good the Tsar's words.
Bismarck agrees with the Tsar, so does
France, so does the sultan. Italy is luke
"a
bluster, but Bismarck, even in
case of Russian occupation of Bull
garla, will take care that the
Austrian growls will not become bites The
escape of Yakoop Khan from Persia is likely
to give Englond enough to do to keep At
ghanistan quiet without troubling herself
| about Bulgaria. Prince Ferdinand has al
ready committed many mistakes in Bull
garia. He cannot even talk to his Bull
garlans in their own tongue. He has wounded
their national susceptibilities by removing
popular commanders of Bulgarian regiments
and giving soft places to his own
German and Austrian favorites. lie is
merely puppet In the hands of
| the Stamboulotfs. Karaveloffs Stamatoffs
and scores of other Offs, and to
| cap the climax he Is unable to find
| in all Germany and Austria a life insurance
| company reckless enough to give him q pol
| icy of insurance on his life. Like the frogs
| in the fable the Bulgarians have been croak-
| ing for king. Russia may give them one
some day, but why Prince Ferdinand of Co.
burg should 70 there, heaven only knows. AT
all events Bismarck and the Tsar and the
Sultan and even Austria are firmly resolved
that peace to Europe shall not be disturbed
by handful of discontented Bulgarians and
their exotic princeings.
A MOBILIZATION SCHEME.
| The premature disclosure by a Paris paper
| of the fact that the Seventeenth army corps
had been singled out by the French minister
of war tor mobilization experiment has, In
the opinion of most people, considerably
lessened the value of the proposed test OF
French fitness to meet a military emergency
if indeed it has not altogether annihllated It
Instead of being suddenly required to muster
or in case of a hypothetical foreign Invasion
the men composing the Seventeeth corps viii
now have been given several days for pre
paration, very different matter. Unless
General Ferron alters the whole mobilization
scheme by substituting another corps fo
that command by General Breart the who'll
thing will be unsatisfactOry.anda as an evening
paper says, will rather shake confidence thar
strengthen it, The Germans are always 0l
the lookout for a pretext for scOtfing a
France. and here they have one.